A new interface paradigm for motion capture based animation systems(14)

Abstract. This paper proposes a new user interface paradigm for motion capture based animation systems, providing intuitive and efficient ways to visualize the main motion capture concepts and operations. A prototype system was built, implementing the prop

Figure11:MotionWindow-connectingactorandmotiondescriptions.

3.3MotionOperations

Motionoperationsarethemostimportantobjectsinthearchitecture.Therefore,theymustbevisualizedinawaythatmakestheprocessintuitivetotheuser.Inourinterfaceparadigm,eachmotionoperationhasitsownwindow.Whenrequested,additionalobjectsareusedtohelpintheprocess,providingafullcontroloftheoperationparameters.

Allmotionoperationwindowshaveabasicsetofauxiliaryobjects:aninteractiveplayersliderandaframeruler.Theseobjectsalsofollowtheinterfaceconceptsdescribedearlier.

Filtering

The lteringoperation(Figure12)isrepresentedinawindowwithtoolswhichallowtheselectionofaspeci cregionofthemotiontobe ltered(andwithalistoftheexisting lters,whichcanbeaccessedbypressing Concatenation